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Namespace aliases have made a large number of inaccessible pages
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Author: cbm.wikipedia

Description:
On enwiki, there are several hundred former shortcuts in namespace 0 that start with 'Wp:' (lowercase p) or 'Wt:'. These are not accessible any longer because of the recently added namespace aliases.


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Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:58 PM
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namespaceDupes can currently rename these to eg [[Wp-foo]]; will need a tweak to rename properly to eg [[WP:Foo]].

Fix for namespaceDupes in r28747

Created attachment 4458
Report from namespaceDupes fix run

Had a few crashes due to bad handling of multiple conflicting conflict resolutions, but got through the whole set in four passes.

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